korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera quality of put. their arms security forces will clear the streets of major cities within the next 24 hours never a new effort to fight the spread of the virus state media say shop streets and roads would all be emptied iran is one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic with a death toll of 514 and more than 11000 infections the country struggling with a lack of lifesaving equipment and asked for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the international monetary fund. let's take a quick look at some other news now iraq's president has condemned by the u.s. which killed 6 people head of the u.s. military's central command has defended the strike saying that targeted iranian backed fighters. the u.s. says the strikes were a spawns 2 rocket attack that killed 3 soldiers on wednesday 2 american and a british soldier died 20 rockets were fired at a military base northwest of reaction in response to these 2. from a wide range of political and military institution condemning them as

korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera kuala lumpur there are more coronavirus updates ahead on al-jazeera including in iraq city business owners say the virus has essentially shut down the city that never sleeps and other news plans to patrol a crucial syrian highway as part of a cease fire deal and products. head though that some of the heavy rain on its way really through more eastern areas of japan over the next couple of days you can see quite a stream of trad where they coming from these coastal areas of china so i want to see just a caraway from the south coast on saturday maybe a shower in hong kong with a high of 23 degrees but this is really where the heaviest of the rain will be now most of the staying all sure we could see a cool some rain showers and sunny to the mountaintops but it's staying clear but cool i've been to. both days in and then also not a bad couple days really across the korean peninsula and staying pretty clear throughout much of central on the southern areas over china now to the south more h

are being caught in the middle florence li al-jazeera township rakhine state myanmar landslides and flooding in brazil have killed at least 12 people and forced some thousands from their homes dozens remain unaccounted for in the states of rio de janeiro and sao paolo the governor there says the equivalent of a month's worth of rain fell in just 12 hours and in the democratic side i beg your pardon in the republic of congo vast oil reserves have been discovered but they're underneath 10000 year old pete lands near the congo rain forest as malcolm webb reports from the capital brazzaville environmentalists say drilling for oil will unlock billions of tons of carbon. over. releases swampy forest lies carbon equivalent to about 20 years of emissions from fossil fuels in the u.s. . it's stored in peat lands the scientists discovered here in the republic of congo 3 years ago the government didn't allow us to go there and film this is the government's video but it did allow oil companies to drill there last year. it's licensed oil exploration in blocks of land across more than half of the people a

korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera. so you can track all of his coronavirus developments will not just here in europe but around the world. is the address. quick recap of our headlines this hour the world health organization is saying that any country not moving to take tough measures against a coronavirus pandemic is making a deadly mistake the warning comes as the number of deaths in infections across europe continues to rise germany has become the latest country to declare school closures in several states and the french president he says that he does have g 7 countries will hold a video conference to discuss the crisis on monday. europe has now become the epicenter of the pundit make with more reported cases and is done the rest of the world combined apart from china more cases out of now being reported every day than were reported in china the host of its appeal to me meanwhile spain has now declared a state of emergency to start from saturday this move allows the government to confine people and evacuate building

thing until then the remainder will remain one of the world's most persecuted minorities florence li al-jazeera mom taught how to chip rakhine state myanmar right let's go to cox's bizarre now in southern bangladesh where so many hundreds of thousands of those ranger refugees are living in squalid camps somewhere charters our correspondent who's been covering the entire episode of misery for these people is there any more appetite among the population there tam there for people to return home back to me a matter of record in state. well of course everybody do want to return back but the condition as from various reports we've been doing what florence been saying the situation just isn't conducive now we've been talking to many of the rowing of the last few days about the situation back there we told them that one of our correspondent is going to be visiting there do you hear anything from your relatives or friends nearly a 1000000 refugees are living here somebody or are there either friends or family members are there and they do stay in touch periodically over the phone some time using local

korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera. iran's security forces will clear the streets of major cities within the next 24 hours never new to fit to fight the spread of the virus state media say shop streets and roads will be emptied iran is one of the country's worst affected by the pandemic with a death toll of 514 and more than 11000 infections the country is struggling with the lack of lifesaving equipment and has asked for an emergency 5000000000 dollar loan from the international monetary fund. russia has started building a new hospital in the capital moscow will be able to treat up to 500 patients russia's recorded 45 infections but no deaths so far the hospital project though has raised suspicions that the truth figures aren't being made public. or several countries across continents are closing borders major cities with millions of people under lockdown governments around the world are using social distancing as one of the ways to stop the virus pandemic from spreading but health workers are urging governments to al

thing until then the remainder will remain one of the world's most persecuted minorities florence li al-jazeera moaned or township rakhine state myanmar. this is al-jazeera had these are the top stories russia is warning it cannot guarantee the safety of turkish planes flying over syria hours after damascus said it was shutting down aspects of it that the developments follow turkey shooting down to syrian fighter jets on sunday the leader of israel's blue i party is just cast his ballot in the general election benny gantz is the main challenger to benjamin netanyahu hopes of continuing as prime minister he was unable to form a government in september it's the 3rd vote in less than a year. the leader of a religious 6 in south korea has apologized for not stopping the spread of coronavirus members of the controversial shin john g. church with links to a mass outbreak of infections. one person has been injured as for the pings from a strike to end a hostage standoff in the capital on a below is outside the shopping center. an estimated 30 people are being held hostage by what you mentioned a disgr

korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera kuala lumpur now to the u.s. president donald trump has been criticized for the lack of a nationwide testing program is jews who address the nation in just under 2 hours a drive through coronavirus testing station has been set up in the city of your shell just outside of new york where an outbreak of covert 19 was detected last week so live now to white house correspondent can you help it of course we know about the importance of testing in terms of understanding the true scope of this outbreak the u.s. has been behind on testing so far is it could that be about to change. very likely there's a lot that has been happening on that front given the fact there have been such widespread complaints about the lack of testing in the united states even that may be deliberate in order to keep the numbers down artificially of cases of covert 19 there are 45 of 50 us states now affected and what we're learning is that there has been a so-called testing czar if you will an assistant health and hum

korea to continue the downward trend reporting more recoveries than infections on friday florence li al-jazeera kuala lumpur. well in all the ramifications coronavirus is having a major impact on sports across the globe the world's most watched football competition the english premier league has now suspended matches until at least the start of april so monic has more on the. it was a health update from this premier league manager that finally forced the world's most lucrative league to take action just hours after was announced that aston boss mikel arteta had contracted coronavirus an emergency meeting was held in london it's a very good decision we've got great league management they made the right decision on the d.v.d. . when you got it in you put it in the penny lee the. other day pitiful none of us know will see our tete a wasn't the only case chelsea star callum hudson adored was the 2nd e.p.l. star to announce he tested positive and like carter to teenager is currently in isolation as you maybe had the virus for the last which i've recovered from. everybody for a week. and a picture re